Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:12 pmIf you are a regular here at NZFF, then you will probably know that once a year NZFF calls for donations to cover the cost of hosting the site. Donations are normally accepted in the run-up to the annual account, which is in June, so you can donate from now through to June 2012.
There's a post in the Community Discussion subforum with further details, and links to donate.
Please give some thought to making a donation, all it takes is a few dollars -- from $5 if you use Paypal, but you can make a donation via the Godzone Store if you are already a customer, or even arrange to make a bank deposit or internet banking transfer. We aim to make it easy, so if you can't find a way to donate which suits you, just send me a message.
Although we've managed to keep the forum running solely on donations, both via the forum and from some commercial sponsoring, this year will be a bit of a test, as the number of donations has been decreasing steadily over the last few years. To give an idea of how many donations we get here's the last three years:
2009 -- 50 donations
2010 -- 27 donations
2011 -- 14 donations
So we've pretty much halved the number of total donations each year. At this rate, we'll be down to 7 or 8 donations this year! Ok, we won't, because already we've had 9 donations, but you get the general idea -- it is easy to overlook this, as we've always managed to cover the cost of hosting etc, but if this gets difficult then something will have to change.
I will admit that donations were closed early last year because we had a reserve from the previous year, but I'd certainly like to see a good number of members making a small donation over the next two months.
-Robin Corn
There's a post in the Community Discussion subforum with further details, and links to donate.
Please give some thought to making a donation, all it takes is a few dollars -- from $5 if you use Paypal, but you can make a donation via the Godzone Store if you are already a customer, or even arrange to make a bank deposit or internet banking transfer. We aim to make it easy, so if you can't find a way to donate which suits you, just send me a message.
Although we've managed to keep the forum running solely on donations, both via the forum and from some commercial sponsoring, this year will be a bit of a test, as the number of donations has been decreasing steadily over the last few years. To give an idea of how many donations we get here's the last three years:
2009 -- 50 donations
2010 -- 27 donations
2011 -- 14 donations
So we've pretty much halved the number of total donations each year. At this rate, we'll be down to 7 or 8 donations this year! Ok, we won't, because already we've had 9 donations, but you get the general idea -- it is easy to overlook this, as we've always managed to cover the cost of hosting etc, but if this gets difficult then something will have to change.
I will admit that donations were closed early last year because we had a reserve from the previous year, but I'd certainly like to see a good number of members making a small donation over the next two months.
-Robin Corn
I never counted the "I've duly coughed up" posts, but always imagined many people donated, but silently.
I never counted the "I've duly coughed up" posts, but always imagined many people donated, but silently.
